That said I REALLY get uncomfortable when people start writing these kind of comments, because they always insist on doing so in a manner that suggests that are writing an objective fact rather than a subjective opinion. In so doing they say much more about themselves than the subjects of their ire.

LOST IN TRANSLATION isn’t the worst movie ever made, because there is no such thing as “the worst movie ever made” and if there were that judgment would have to come from a person who actually saw every single film ever made in order to make the accurate comparison. What there is instead is a well-made (unless you’re willing to suggest that the film fails on a technical level as well, which I think could be argued as being objectively inaccurate), occasionally transcendent work of one woman’s personal expression that you personally didn’t care for. The only way for it to be considered the “worst movie ever made” would be to ignore the opinion of everyone else who had seen it in deferment to your own and that strikes me as being on just the wrong side of overly ego-centric.